Conan’s Audition Tape

I tried to upload this to You­Tube, but with words like “let­ter­man” and “conan” on it, it didn’t stand a chance. Which I don’t get — how does NBC plan to make any money off this clip in the future?

Well any­way, I down­loa­ded this in like 2002 from some Conan video site. There’s this great moment when he’s inter­vie­wing this first guest, and he’s idly sta­ring at his desk, fid­ge­ting with his pen­cil, being agreea­ble, and you watch this rea­li­za­tion come over him, that des­pite fee­ling out of place and unworthy of being behind even a fake desk, he’ll never make an impres­sion unless he says what comes natu­rally to him.